Mimi Anderson started running at the age of 36 (after a long battle with anorexia).
Over the next 20 years, she went onto set multiple Guinness World Records.
Her achievements include:
- completing the Badwater Double; the return trip from Death Valley where the race starts to Mt Whitney, and back - a journey of 469km,
- winning outright the 6633 Extreme Ultramarathon, a self-supported non-stop race over 560km in the Arctic Circle in which you drag on a sled everything you need to survive that took her almost 6 days to finish, and
- setting Guinness World Record for the fastest time by a female running the length of England and the record for a woman running across Ireland.
Now it hasn’t all been smooth sailing.
In 2017, she attempted to set the record for running across America - that’s over 5000km. Sadly, that attempt ended due to injury and it also brought to an end to her ultrarunning career.
But you can’t keep a woman like Mimi down for very long!
So in her late 50s, she learnt to ride a bike, overcame a life long fear of open water and finished her first triathlon.
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